Sociology key terms Archives – Page 12 of 13

What is Capitalism?

Karl Thompson / September 21, 2017

You really need to understand what Capitalism is in order to understand Marx. Wikipedia (1) is actually a useful starting […]

Karl Thompson / September 7, 2017

Socialisation is learning the norms and values of a society.

Working definition The systematic domination of women by men in some or all of society’s spheres and institutions Origins of

Capitalist production alienates workers from their products, their labour power, themselves and their own souls.

Below is an extract from the “The Sociological imagination” by C. Wright Mills (1959) – I get students to read

Does society shape the individual? Do class, gender, ethnicity influence our life chances? How and why do societies change?

A brief summary of, and elaboration on Anthony Giddens’ take on what the sociological imagination involves… Learning to think sociologically

If you could represent the five sociological perspectives in sociology as five shapes, I think they’d look something like this:

Society refers to the structured relations between people, typically manifested in social institutions.

The average twenty something in the UK will spend £263K on housing over the next 32 years of their life,